Audio recording clip of interview with Isadore Washington by Claytee D. White, February 7, 2008
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Part of an interview with Isadore Washington by Claytee White on February 7, 2008. Washington describes arresting a white man at Gilbert's Liquor Store as a young police officer.So did it change once you went on the police department? When I went on the police department, I did not — my first year nobody ever told me that a black policeman could arrest a white person. So they had a bar down at Bonanza and D Street called Gilbert's Liquor Store. That's where most of the blacks and whites would hang out. But my first year with the police department I got a call — I was working by myself. And I got a call that there was a troublemaker at the Gilbert's Liquor Store. When I got there and found out it was a white guy, and that he was raising all kind of trouble — everybody was afraid to mess with him. So when I got there and tried to cool him down, he paid no attention to me. So I had to place him under arrest. And he told me, he said, boy, you can't arrest me. You've got to call the white man. But nobody ever told me that I couldn't — my first year I'm a young 22 years old. And nobody told me that. That wasn't in my job description; that I couldn't arres
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